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Sony Reader App does not work with El Capitain

The Software "Reader for Mac" from Sony does not work after the Upgrade from Yosemite to El Capitan. The E-Book is not recognized by the Reader App, only by the Mac and the Foto App...


Any Proposals...?

Posted on Oct 3, 2015 12:23 AM

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Aug 26, 2017 6:25 AM in response to MichaelG12345

Hi,

I had this same problem after upgrading to macOS Sierra from Yosemite (needed to sync my Mac books & notes backup to a new PRS-T3 reader) and managed to solve it by disabling the mac firewall (and csrutil but that alone did not do the trick).


Longer story - first I tried:

- I disabled csrutil (from recovery mode) as suggested - did NOT work, reader was still disconnected

- Downloaded the same Reader for Mac version from Sony and my Mac refused to run the app - I discovered the upgrade to Sierra had reset my app installation settings and figured I need to enable third-party apps again

- Into the System Preferences menu I noticed the Firewall, checked - Reader was not added, added it as app with allowed connections (I first disabled the firewall, but it's enough to allow the app through it) - reconnected the reader to the Mac, and Voila! - it's connected and I synced successfully 🙂


Hope this helps others.


OR

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Oct 10, 2015 1:41 AM in response to MichaelG12345

I have tried to put manual ebooks to the reader per drag&drop, using the finder - but DRM rights do not work. I have not tried Calibre - maybe this works with El Capitan?


Fortunately I have extra Yosemite on an external SSD drive which works very well.


Hope that an update for El Capitan from Apple or Sony will come soon !!!

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Oct 10, 2015 7:28 PM in response to MichaelG12345

You're right - I couldn't get DRM books to work.


Calibre transfers non-DRM very well, and fortunately (the reason why I bought this reader) I can still borrow books from overdrive libraries through the device itself over wifi.


I guess Windows or Yosemite is currently the only real answer for other DRM books.

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Oct 18, 2015 5:37 AM in response to MichaelG12345

Regarding the DRM issue... I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions 4.0 then dragged my protected books to that app on the dock which then opened them as ePub files. I then searched for the Adobe Digital Editions folder and dragged the now ePub version of the books to the Reader drive mounted on my desktop. This then transferred the files to my reader.

A little convoluted perhaps... but until Sony gets their act together and updates on their end I'm just pleased that I can transfer my new purchases to my reader.

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Feb 13, 2016 4:37 PM in response to carolinefrommudgeeraba

Very helpful, thank you Caroline. Works perfectly well for me, after realising

the power of a system RESTART to get a READER to appear on the Mac...

Once that was understood, your "Sony_Reader/media/Books" information

came down from mudgeeraba.


KInd regards and all the best.

Thierry

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